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StPetersDomeVatican
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| Wikicatalog Template | Work | | Title | Dome of St Peters Basilica | | Agent | Porta, Giacomo Della | | Subject | Religious | | Description | | | Publisher | | | Contributor | Fontana, Carlo; Michelangelo | | Date (of work) | 1546, 1585-1590 | | Work Type | Architecture | | Work ID | StPetersDomeVatican | | Measurements | Diameter: 42.3 m, 120 m high | | Material | brick double dome | | Technique | masonry | | Identifier | | | Source | | | Language | | | Relation | part of St Peters Basilica | | Date of photo | | | Location/site | Italy, Rome, Vatican | | GIS Coordinates | +41.902222+12.453333/ | | Location/Museum | | | Museum Inventory No. | | | Style/Period | Renaissance | | Movement/Dynasty | | | Rightsowner | | | Searchwords | paraboloid, elliptical, engineering, collaboration, cupola | | Notes | The dome was designed first by Bramante (1503) and then by Michelangelo, who in 1546 conceived of a spherical dome, only the drum of which was completed at his death in 1564. Giacomo Della Porta and the engineer Carlo Fontana redesigned and vaulted the dome from 1585-1590; the dome was completed with Fontana's lantern and ball in 1593. | | Record author | H. Seneff |
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